Trajectory tracking for unicycle-type and two-steering-wheels mobile robots

Through two different approaches, this report proposes two general controllers for unicycle-type and two-steering-wheels mobile robots. For both systems, conditions for asymptotical convergence to a predefined path are established and simulation results are presented. Rather than writing the systems' equations with respect to a fixed reference frame, the robot state is here parametrized relative to the followed path, in terms of distance and orientation.

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